Episodes
Aug. 16, 2019
60: Earth’s Last Magnetic Field Reversal Took Far Longer Than Once Thought
SpaceTime 20190816 Series 22 Episode 60
Aug. 14, 2019
59: Watching How Massive Stars Are Made
Astronomers are studying an unusual stellar nursery which is rapidly collapsing and giving birth to massive stars.
Aug. 9, 2019
58: The Birth of Our Milky Way Galaxy
Astronomers have opened a new window on the birth of the Milky Way finding the galaxy we have today was formed out of the collision of two major components ten billion years ago.
Aug. 7, 2019
57: Near-Earth Asteroid Near Miss
An asteroid as large as a football field has just flown past the Earth – with astronomers not detecting it until just hours before its close approach.
July 24, 2019
55: Apollo 11 - Disproving Conspiracy Theories
Disproving conspiracy theories about the Apollo Moon landings
July 19, 2019
54: Spooky Quantum Entanglement
The first image of spooky quantum entanglement in action
July 18, 2019
53: Man on the Moon: Apollo 11 Celebrates Half a Century
A special SpaceTime documentary looking back at what is arguably the greatest scientific achievement of mankind.
July 12, 2019
52: A New Window On Matter
Plus: World’s most powerful super computers for the SKA project, New Zealand’s latest orbital space flight & more...
July 10, 2019
51: First Images of the Origins of FRBs
Astronomers have for the first time ever imaged the exact location of a one-off Fast Radio Burst
July 5, 2019
50: New Idea to Explain Ancient Supermassive Black Holes
A new hypothesis has been developed claiming supermassive black holes can be created without first needing a star or stellar remnant to collapse.
June 26, 2019
47: New Mission to Intercept a Comet
The European Space Agency has announced a new mission to study a comet.
June 21, 2019
46: Hunting for Dark Galaxies
An ancient collision with a newly discovered dark dwarf galaxy may be responsible for the Milky Way’s characteristic outer disk ripples.
June 20, 2019
45: A Giant Mass Anomaly
A giant mass anomaly detected under the Moon's largest crater
June 14, 2019
44: New Questions About the Origin of Earth’s Water
There’s a new chapter in the on-going search for the origin of Earth’s water.
June 13, 2019
43: Mars Insight’s Drill Fails
Scientists and engineers are trying to figure out why a key instrument on NASA’s Mars Insight lander has stopped working.
June 5, 2019
42: A Hundred Years of Gravity
It was a hundred years ago this month that observations performed during a total solar eclipse by Author Eddington proved for the first time that light can be physically bent by gravity.
May 30, 2019
41: A Potential Risk
A new study claims the Taurid meteoroid stream could pose a risk to planet Earth.
May 24, 2019
40: Shrinking Moon Causing Moonquakes
Astronomers say moonquakes are being generated as the Moon continues to cool and contract.
May 17, 2019
38: 'Blue Moon' Lunar Lander Unveiled
The world’s richest man -- Amazon boss Jeff Bezos –– says his Blue Origin aerospace company could have people walking on the Moon by 2024.
May 16, 2019
37: Neutron Star – Black Hole Merger Detected
First possible Neutron Star – Black Hole Merger detected by LIGO